August 22 + 23 | Roulette | Brooklyn

About

Protest songs from across the generations.
Teens. The TEAM. Baby Boomers.
Two nights only.

Primer for a Failed Superpower is a concert featuring a massive band of teenagers, the TEAM, and Baby Boomers playing new and unexpected arrangementsiconic protest songs from the past and present–songs that have celebrated and questioned what it means to be an American throughout our country’s past and present, and that exercise the muscles in our hearts and lungs for the challenges ahead.

The three-generation band includes 33 performers and musicians from across New York City and as far away as Texas–some veteran performers, and some taking the stage for the first time. The concert will also feature video interviews with activists from across the country–from an indigenous youth water protector at Standing Rock, to one of the co-chairs of the Women’s March on Washington, to a coal-country cultural worker in Virginia.

About The TEAM

The TEAM is a Brooklyn-based theatre ensemble dedicated to creating new work about the experience of living in America today. Since 2004, we have created 10 original and award-winning pieces of theatre, which have been seen at venues including the Public Theater and PS122 in New York, Boston’s A.R.T., the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Virginia Tech, London’s National Theatre and Royal Court Theatre, and at festivals throughout the UK, Europe, Australia and Hong Kong. theteamplays.org